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Force10 Networks Powers Two of the World’s Five Fastest Supercomputers

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Germany’s Forschungszentrum Juelich, ranked 3 and 5 respectively on the 2010 Top500.org world’s fastest supercomputer list, are powered in part with Force10 Ethernet switch/routers
Force10 Networks, Inc., a global technology leader that data center, service provider and enterprise customers rely on when the network is their business, today announced that its Ethernet switch/router solutions contribute significantly to the network performance of two of the world’s top five most powerful supercomputers, according to the most recent Top500.org list. The third-ranked supercomputer worldwide, Roadrunner, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Germany’s Forschungszentrum Juelich, ranked fifth, both deploy the Force10 E-Series® switch/router to provide dynamic connectivity to the supercomputer’s high-speed Ethernet networks.